I'm listening to KINGS ROW for the umpteenth time right now, and once again my mind is blown to smithereens. The word "epic" doesn't even begin to descibe this masterpiece. It's the film score equivalent of The Complete Works of Shakespeare. It's the Crème de la FSM.

I too think this is a great release. Kings Row is fantastic in (almost) complete form, but I like The Sea Wolf even better. Very modern and a surprising score coming from Korngold. It's one of my favorites. When this release came out I was expecting further FSM Korngold titles in the near future. I'm kinda surprised and disappointed that no more have come out (particularly the original track for The Sea Hawk, my favorite Korngold score, but perhaps the time wasn't right with two re-recordings of it coming out).

The "Randy and Drake" theme is my all-time favorite "love theme," especially as played in the "Kings Row Suite" by Charles Gerhardt and the National Philharmonic for their Reader's Digest recording of the suite (1968). Lush oceans and oceans of violins, as opposed to the smaller orchestral palette in the soundtrack or in Gerhardt's later accurate re-recording of the score for Varese. I'm a sucker for violins playing a beautiful love theme. This would be my theme as they wheeled me away into eternity in "Soylent Green."

Chesky Records released it on their "Hollywood Screen Classics" CD71 in 1992. A lot of people don't know about this CD. It is WELL worth picking up and is usually not too pricey. Here's a link:

Dang but I wish all of those Gerhardt recordings could be released in several box sets...

I do prefer Korngold conducting his own work, though. Bill Stromberg probably gets the closest of the conductors I've heard but even he can't match Korngold (though he *nails* Newman, Waxman, and Herrmann).

Yeah, but one isn't feasible because of rights issues -- all the Reader's Digest stuff, for example, could make up one box set, but then the RCA stuff would have to be on another...and there'd still be a bunch of odds and ends like the Holdridge album that are owned by different people entirely. A truly complete Gerhardt conducts Film Music set would be even less feasible than a complete Star Trek film score set.

Yeah, but one isn't feasible because of rights issues -- all the Reader's Digest stuff, for example, could make up one box set, but then the RCA stuff would have to be on another...and there'd still be a bunch of odds and ends like the Holdridge album that are owned by different people entirely. A truly complete Gerhardt conducts Film Music set would be even less feasible than a complete Star Trek film score set.

In the early ninetiews, I was at a post productionhouse in Burbank. they had a musia and effects track for Between Two Worlds. It sounded prettty good. Plus there were far less sound effects for this foreign track than in the actual film. I would love to have a copy of this.

John Mauceri did a new stereo recording of much of the score. But, it is not complete. When it comes to the big emotional scenes, mauceri seems to hold back and not let the music fly as it should.

In the early ninetiews, I was at a post productionhouse in Burbank. they had a musia and effects track for Between Two Worlds. It sounded prettty good. Plus there were far less sound effects for this foreign track than in the actual film. I would love to have a copy of this.

John Mauceri did a new stereo recording of much of the score. But, it is not complete. When it comes to the big emotional scenes, mauceri seems to hold back and not let the music fly as it should.

In the early ninetiews, I was at a post productionhouse in Burbank. they had a musia and effects track for Between Two Worlds. It sounded prettty good. Plus there were far less sound effects for this foreign track than in the actual film. I would love to have a copy of this.

John Mauceri did a new stereo recording of much of the score. But, it is not complete. When it comes to the big emotional scenes, mauceri seems to hold back and not let the music fly as it should.

I have the Mauceri recording and while I admire much of his film music endeavors, there is a spirit (excuse the pun) missing from this haunting work. I would take the m & e tracks...are you listening Lukas? If I don;t mind barking, I certainly can take a boat whistle or two.

In the early ninetiews, I was at a post productionhouse in Burbank. they had a musia and effects track for Between Two Worlds. It sounded prettty good. Plus there were far less sound effects for this foreign track than in the actual film. I would love to have a copy of this.

John Mauceri did a new stereo recording of much of the score. But, it is not complete. When it comes to the big emotional scenes, mauceri seems to hold back and not let the music fly as it should.

Your post about a M&E track surviving for this film is perhaps the most important news have read on any board anywhere Joe. This is one of the great lost film score treasures and I wish I had known that such a thing existed as it could have been added as an extra on the recent WA DVD of the film.

Do you recall where you heard it? It is almost inconceivable that this survived the mass destruction of the Warner Sound Library in 1977, but then...anything is possible I have discovered.

In the early nineties, I was at a post-production house in Burbank. They had a music and effects track for Between Two Worlds. It sounded pretty good. Plus there were far less sound effects for this foreign track than in the actual film.

I would love to have a copy of this.

***************************************************************** And so would Brendan Carroll and so would I!!! I absolutely concur with Mr. Carroll...the existence of that M&E track for BETWEEN TWO WORLDS is BIG Korngold news.

The early nineties is around 20 years ago. Not too, too in the past. I wonder if our Burbank or European post-production friends would have this tape sequestered somewhere.

Joe, can you jog that wonderful memory of yours for more details. Name names. Who WERE the post-production buggers? Are they still in business somewhere else? We need that music!

I'm listening to KINGS ROW for the umpteenth time right now, and once again my mind is blown to smithereens. The word "epic" doesn't even begin to descibe this masterpiece. It's the film score equivalent of The Complete Works of Shakespeare. It's the Crème de la FSM.

Two great scores, but I clearly prefer the re-recordings (Gerhardt and Gamba, respectively) - Korngold's fabulous orchestration needs modern sound!